Von Luther zu Bismarck: Kulturkampf und nationale Identitat bei Theodor Fontane, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer und Gerhart Hauptmann

German Quarterly | October 1, 2000| | Copyright

Sprengel, Peter. Von Luther zu Bismarck: Kulturkampf and rationale Identitat bei Theodor Fontane, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Gerhart Hauptmann. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 1999. 119pp. DM 34.00.

Von Luther zu Bismarck proceeds from two unremarkable, but nevertheless important premises, first, that we know too little about the evolution and content of German identity, both in the Wilhelmine era and afterwards and, second, that we can learn useful things about Germany by reading "the nation's" literature. Our lack of detailed knowledge about the nation before Bismarck is no less striking, but this ...

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